Molecular Patterns of Neurodevelopmental Preconditioning: A Study of the Effects of Antenatal Steroid Therapy in a Protein-Restriction Mouse Model

Table 3

Neurodevelopmental genes for genetic profiling based on hierarchical clustering analysis.

Gene symbol	Functional summary	Reference number	MGI ID	Fold change versus C
				PR	C-D/S	PR-D/S	C-S	PR-S
Sox11	Modulator of neocortical development	[4]	98359			↑3.84
Tcf3	Neural differentiation	[5]	1202876			↓1.62
Mapk8	Neuron projection development	[6]	1346861			↑1.50
Btbd6	Neuronal differentiation	[7]	3026623					↓1.96
Mtap1b	Axonal guidance and neuronal migration	[8]	1306778					↑3.83
Eif2b5	Myelination and glial development	[9]	2446176					↓1.65
Hmgcs1	Brain cholesterol pathways in myelination	[10]	107592					↑2.03
Camk2n1	Neuronal development	[11]	1913509				↓1.81	↓1.87